1 John 4:8,21 - Compare All Versions

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Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers.

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.

If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.

The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. [He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.]

And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should also [unselfishly] love his brother and seek the best for him.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.